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From: Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "9fans@9fans.net" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Fri,  4 Dec 2009 23:11:57 +0100
Subject: Re: [9fans] remote usb?
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usbd is part of the play.
it has to enumerate and recover from
errors. appart from that you can
export #u, but don't use another
usbd on it. one is enough.

just start your driver.
if you can, it may be better to
export the driver fs instead.


On 04/12/2009, at 22:48, newsham@lava.net wrote:

> Does remote USB make sense? Would it be possible to boot
> up a plan9 system on one machine, export its usb device to
> another machine and run usbd there and have the second machine
> make use of any usb device attached to the first machine?
> Would the latency be too high?
>
> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com
>
> [/mail/box/nemo/msgs/200912/290]